Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1887-09-23
BACK FROM THE BEYOND.
A Tennessee Girl is Dead twenty-five
Minutes.

| "A Achnesseo Olrl is Dead twenty-five
Minutes.
There is one young lady, Miss Della
Street, of Giles County, who claims to
have spread her white wings and sailed
over the sea" to the celestial city last
March. The fact has not until the present
time been in print, and would probably
have never been published had she re-
manned in that lethargic country. There
have been at different times persons who
have made similar claims but the public,
instead of listening to them with creduli-
ty, looked upon the claimants rather with
commiseration, and regarded the fervid ac-
counts of what they saw as the imaginings
of diseased mind or perchance the pro
duct of disordered liver.
Miss Street is what is known as "coun-
try girl" and has not enjoyed the educa-
tlonal facilities of large cities, but she is
lively and vivacious, and in point of intel
| llgence is the equal of those raised under
the same circumstances, but it is not rea-
sonable to think a person of such limited
| advantages could, unassisted, describe any
thing IN as glowing language as she does
1t can not be said that she is more observ-
ant than her associates and displays wis
dom begotten of years of experience, for
she is
Standing with reluctant feet
Where the brook and river meet
Womanhood and girlhood fleet
Her description of the heavenly Jerusa-
lem, which is vivid, is reduced to writing,
and is offered in girlish diffidence and
youthful innocence. 1t is clothed in the
most elegant and chaste language, and de-
scribes a country more glorious than any
upon which the feet of fancy have ever
trod, and bears the imprint of a superior
mind. There are condolences connected
with this case that challenge attention and
show there was a power greater than the
finite involved.
About February LIST Of the current year
Miss Street informed her parents that on
March 9th following, at o'clock in the
afternoon, she would be taken violently
i'll that she would grow worse until the
following day at P. NJ, at which time she
would die and remain in state of death
for twenty-five minutes, and that during
the period of suspended animation she
would visit that house not made with
hands, eternal in the heavens" She asked
her father not to send for doctors, as human
instrumentality could not prevent her
journey to Paradise. and also told him not
to be alarmed, declaring with implicit
confidence that, after enduring the sting of
death for twenty-five minutes, her mortal
and immortal natures would reunite and
she would again become living soul.
Of course the parents were uneasy about
the idol of their hreside, and began to
think that her reason was ahdicating its
throne. On the arrival of the day on
which she announced she would be taken
Ill they evInced great solicitude inquiring
hourly as to her condition. She answered
cheerily and continued to admonish them
not to be alarmed. The hands of the clock
toiled around until 4 was finally reached, |
and to the girls parents they never seemed
to move so rapidly. While the time-piece |
was upon the stroke of the hour the Young
lady was Frustrated with sickness and VIC |
lent pains wracked her body. Despite her |
entreaties, the father sent for skilled ply
sicians, who vainly administered their most !
potent remedies and at 0 o'clock on the |
18th they pronounced life extinct The |
sickness and death occurred as she had pre-
dicted, and in time so did the resuscitation.
The father remembered the declaration
that she world return to life, and looked at
the clock, and 10! the pendulum had
NNtAoNN ~ flbAabSJ dlli tIlt Oiu llIup-pleCc
that had for years faithfully told off the
hours had stopped while on the stroke of
3. When the girl returned to conscious
ness the clock started of its own accord,
finished striking the hour, and has run
since without interruption. BY reference
to the watch of one of the doctors it was
found that she had been insensible-shalI
we say dead for twenty fve minutes.
After the return of animation her tongue
was paralyzed, and she indicated by signs
that writing material was wanted, which
was provided, and she wrote letters which
she says were dictated by Christ, and the
description previously referred TO. The
whole covers nineteen page. Of foolscap
paper. She says she is commissioned to
read her manuscript wherever she goes.
While in the home of the blest she was
asked by woman to write, after returning
to earth, to her great-granddaught Mrs.
Annie B. Shelton, of Kinterbush, Sumpter
county, Ala, and tell her how anxiously
her great-grandame awaited her coming.
Our informant is not positive as to the
correctness of these names, but thinks that
of the old lady was Mrs. Annie Belmont,
who said she had been dead 95 years. By
writing to the address the girl gave it was
learned that woman of that name had
died in that place in 1872, and that she
had great-granddaughter resident there
Miss Street says she will be told in 1889
the date of her DEATH
The statements as given above are es-
tablished by unimpeachable witnesses We
attempt no explanation, but simply give
the facts, and ali doubling Thomases who
want to are left free to cavil.-Fdyettealle